Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Regarding suspensions, I have some responses to parliamentary questions on this issue. One of the longest suspensions was for eight years, which seems extraordinarily long. The people suspended have issues in this regard, but, equally, there are also questions here regarding what kind of a process would allow something to go on for that long. It seems like an inordinately long suspension, although there were much shorter suspensions as well. If it is not possible to resolve issues of this kind in a timely way, that screams out to me that there is a problem here.